Scaffolds a new intelligent textbook project from scratch — creates mkdocs.yml, the docs/ directory tree, contact.md, license.md (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), license.png badge, and starter index/about/course-description pages. Use this skill at the very start of a new textbook project, before any chapters, learning graph, or MicroSims exist. Trigger on phrases like "init textbook", "initialize textbook", "new textbook project", "scaffold a textbook", "set up a new book", or when the user is in an empty directory and asks to start building an intelligent textbook. After scaffolding, route the user to the book-installer skill to layer on optional features (math, mascot, slide viewer, learning graph viewer, etc.).
Installs and configures project infrastructure including MkDocs Material intelligent textbook templates, learning graph viewers, and skill tracking systems. Routes to the appropriate installation guide based on what the user needs to set up.
Utility tools for MicroSim management including quality validation, screenshot capture, icon management, index page generation, and iframe height synchronization. Routes to the appropriate utility based on the task needed.
Creates interactive educational MicroSims using the best-matched JavaScript library (p5.js, Chart.js, Plotly, Mermaid, vis-network, vis-timeline, Leaflet, Venn.js). Analyzes user requirements to route to the appropriate visualization type and generates complete MicroSim packages with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, documentation, screen capture, and metadata.
Generate complete causal-loop-diagram (CLD) infrastructure for an MkDocs Material site — a progressive build-up article that introduces each reinforcing and balancing loop in its own interactive vis-network diagram, plus the shared cld-viewer for fullscreen exploration. Use this skill whenever the user wants a CLD article, a systems-thinking diagram, a feedback-loop diagram, an article about reinforcing or balancing loops, a "limits to growth" or "tragedy of the commons" or other systems archetype, or any time they describe a topic where one runaway dynamic competes with stabilizing forces (AI scaling, supply chain bullwhip, climate feedback, addiction, virality). Also use when the user mentions "make me a CLD", "draw the loops", "model the dynamics", "show the system", or asks to extend an existing CLD article with a new loop. The skill produces interactive, draggable, vis-network-based diagrams — NOT static images, NOT mermaid, NOT ASCII art.
This skill generates comprehensive metrics reports for intelligent textbooks built with MkDocs Material, analyzing chapters, concepts, glossary terms, FAQs, quiz questions, diagrams, equations, MicroSims, word counts, and links. Use this skill when working with an intelligent textbook project that needs quantitative analysis of its content, typically after significant content development or for project status reporting. The skill creates two markdown files - book-metrics.md with overall statistics and chapter-metrics.md with per-chapter breakdowns - in the docs/learning-graph/ directory.
Review a MicroSim's visual layout using Claude Vision — screenshot at the declared iframe height, walk a checklist (clipped labels, overlapping controls, panel overflow, low contrast, draw-order, library-specific bugs), patch source, re-verify. Library-agnostic — p5.js, Mermaid, Chart.js, vis-network, Leaflet. Use to QA a layout or fix something that "looks off" in a screenshot — also proactively after generating a new MicroSim. Triggers — "review the layout", "labels clipped", "why cut off". Complements microsim-iframe-tester.
Generates a comprehensive learning graph from a course description, including 200 concepts with dependencies, taxonomy categorization, and quality validation reports. Use this when the user wants to create a structured knowledge graph for educational content.